District Attorney Larry Krasner’s progressive policies have been blamed for the spike in gun crimes, murders, retail thefts, and lootings across Philadelphia. He has clashed with police and with Republicans in Harrisburg who tried to impeach him, and is a regular whipping boy for right-wing media, including Fox News. Krasner has his faults, but he deserves praise for his relentless pursuit of justice for those wrongly convicted of crimes. Since he took office in 2018, nearly 40 people have been exonerated, thanks to the Conviction Integrity Unit he created. Nearly all the wrongly accused were Black men. Some spent decades in prison. One wrongly convicted man spent 41 years behind bars. Another was on death row for 25 years before being exonerated in two separate cases. In nearly all the cases, the wrongful convictions were the result of misconduct by either the police or prosecutors (or both) who withheld evidence, forced false confessions, or committed perjury.

This spring, rumors were swirling that HERBL, one of California’s largest cannabis distribution companies, was on the verge of collapse. So Mike Beaudry, the company’s CEO, sent out an email on May 18 declaring that “these rumors are categorically not true. HERBL continues to be fully operational.” Less than a month later, HERBL had completely collapsed. HERBL’s failure left a trail of damage that hurt small pot brands and shorted the state some $17 million in unpaid taxes. HERBL is only the latest high-flying California pot startup to crumble, following companies like Flow Kana, which raised $175 million in capital only to collapse, and MedMen, the California startup that earned a billion-dollar valuation calling itself the Apple Store of Weed only to find itself this year on the brink of financial ruin.

On November 19, the Yemeni naval forces have seized the car carrier GALAXY LEADER ship.In a statement about the seizure of this ship, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said: “In line with the implementation of the instructions of our leader “Seyed Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi” and in response to the requests of the great people of Yemen and all free people and based on religious, human and moral responsibility, for the oppressed Palestinian nation and their cruel siege and the continuation of the horrific and heinous killings of the Palestinian people, the Yemeni Navy carried out a military operation in the Red Sea, the result of which was the seizure of an Israeli ship and its transfer to the coast of Yemen.”Brigadier General Saree added asked all countries whose nationals work in the Red Sea to refrain from any joint work or cooperation with Israeli ships or ships affiliated with the Israelis.The armed forces of Yemen also emphasized that Israel is a threat to the security, stability of the region and international corridors, and Yemen will continue military operations against this regime until the end of their aggression on the Gaza Strip and the heinous crimes of Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Galaxy Leader cargo ship The Galaxy Leader is a cargo ship with a Bahamas flag (from Latin American countries) that transports vehicle cargo. According to Hebrew media reports, part of this ship belongs to a Zionist company owned by a Jewish businessman named Abraham Rami Ungar. Forbes ranked Ungar as one of the 100 richest people in Israel, with a net worth of $3.2 billion.The seizure of the Israeli ship by Ansar Allah can be considered the beginning of the naval war between the resistance groups and Israel. Israel is currently engaged in the three fronts of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the north of Palestine, and is unable to fully respond to Hezbollah’s ground attacks in the northern axis and Yemen’s air and sea attacks.

Argentina elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday, rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty. Official results have not been released, but his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, conceded in a speech. His candidacy was hampered by the country's worst economic crisis in two decades while he has been at the helm. Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise, but sparked fears of austerity in others.

Ben Geier's 'Abandoned Theatres' is an ongoing series that's both a nostalgic and clear-eyed look at small-town life.

Authorities have released images of a person of interest in connection with the November 11th fire underneath Interstate 10 that spread quickly over 8 acres, prompting the thoroughfare's closure.

The directive seeks “options for expeditious action against those responsible” for violence, according to a memo read to POLITICO.

Despite no evidence a mother mistreated her child, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services continues to enter her home without a warrant. She has filed a lawsuit, citing ProPublica’s reporting, arguing her rights are being violated.

A California family is suing a Virginia sheriff’s department for hiring a deputy who sexually extorted and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint and killed her mother and her grandparents before setting fire to their home.

Amazon in September previewed a generative AI-based Alexa feature called “Let’s Chat” that will allow users to engage in longer conversations with the voice assistant while maintaining the context of the discussion.

X Corp, formerly Twitter, will file a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk has said. Mr Musk posted a statement on Saturday on the platform, soon after major US companies paused their advertisements on the site. "The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company," Mr Musk wrote on X, without naming any other parties. Liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America earlier this week said it found that corporate advertisements by IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast's Xfinity were being placed alongside anti-Semitic content. IBM on Thursday said it immediately suspended all advertising on Musk-owned X after the watchdog found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount Global said on Friday they were also pausing their ads on X. Axios reported that Apple would do the same. "Media Matters created an alternate account and curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account's timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts." Media Matters did not immediately respond to an emailed request seeking comment outside of business hours. Advertisers have fled the site since Musk bought it in October 2022 and reduced content moderation, resulting in a sharp rise in hate speech on X, according to civil rights groups. Mr Musk on Wednesday endorsed an anti-Semitic post on X that falsely claimed members of the Jewish community were stoking hatred against white people. The White House on Friday condemned Elon Musk's endorsement of what it called a "hideous" anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on X. It accused Mr Musk of an "abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans". "It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie … one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, referring to the October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel.

They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head.

Elon Musk says X users who deploy the terms “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and other “similar euphemisms” that “necessarily imply genocide” will be suspended from the platform.

Dockworkers in Sweden pledged on Friday to refuse to offload Tesla cars at any of the country's ports as they expanded their industrial action in sympathy with Tesla workers' demands for collective bargaining agreements.

During his 2018 gubernatorial bid, DeSantis and his wife, Casey, apparently mocked the campaign spot behind the scenes.

LexisNexis sold face recognition, phone tracking, and other surveillance technology to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

If you in the year of our lord twenty-fucking-twenty-three go around saying that “the Church killed Joan of Arc” not only are you just flat our wrong, but you are a victim of English and Burgundian propaganda.

LOS ANGELES — Less than 24 hours after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth” of what Jewish people were doing, IBM paused its advertising on the social media platform as X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, and others at the company scrambled Thursday to contain the fallout. X employees said Thursday that they had gotten calls from advertisers wondering why Musk was making comments seen as antisemitic and why their ads were showing up next to white nationalist and Nazi content,

The treatment has some side effects: participants experienced brief flu-like symptoms, including fever, headaches and body aches, as well as a temporary increase in liver enzymes, which returned to normal within days. But two of the ten participants experienced cardiovascular events: one died from a heart attack five weeks after receiving VERVE-101, and the other had a heart attack after one day. An independent safety board concluded that the first event was expected in people who had such advanced heart disease and was not related to treatment. The the participant who experienced the second event did not inform the trial investigators of a chest pain which started before the treatment. The board recommended trial enrolment be continued without changes to the drug protocol.

The report also examined Mr Santos’s use of Redstone Strategies, a limited liability corporation affiliated with him, and how at least $200,000 worth of money was transferred from its account to Mr Santos’s personal account. After one $50,000 transfer, Mr Santos paid down his credit card debt and made a $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes and smaller purchases at Only Fans and Sephora as well as for botox, meals, and parking.